Word: diving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...builder of the $1,000,000 Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, dove into mystery through a broken wave (TIME, June 7). She was taking her second dip of a June afternoon; her secretary sat reading on the beach; thousands of people were bathing all round her, but with that dive Aimee McPherson vanished as completely as if she had stepped through a looking-glass into the Never-Never Land. Last week Aimee McPherson, in a gingham gown spattered with mud, tottered into the police-office of Douglas, Ariz., and told her story. "Mrs. McPherson...
Died. Bessie Coleman, 26, "the world's only Negro aviatrix"; at Jacksonville, Fla., after a half-mile nose dive made by her plane when its controls became jammed by a monkey wrench...
...cannot claim a burning interest in the subject. Yet there is a mild fascination in this reaction of an eminent political lady to the conduct of political men, eminent and extremely otherwise. Why should the politician, handshaker though he is in some circumstances, habitually dive for a fight when he could be assured of modest winnings by gentler means? Mrs. Blair believes that explanations begin at home; that the housewife has long acted by program, unhampered in her kingdom of accomplishment, while man as warrior, bread winner, or political warder has always faced competition, and, being long habituated, now creates...
...admire. Besides failing to arouse that on-well-it-takes-all-kinds-of-people-to-make-a-world feeling so common in the contemplation of musical comedy heroes, Mr. Puck sings most satisfactorily, maltreats a piano outrageously, even to the extent of landing on the keys in a nose dive while in the throes of a jazz number, and clowns through numerous comedy scenes which owe their hilarity largely to his naive portrayal of the nice young man who "lives at the Y.M.C.A. in Brooklyn." Moreover, he is credited with the direction of the dance numbers, which should in itself...
...What do you want, you scum of the earth? Money? Tell the cook to bring a panful. But you shall dive for it today! A cold plunge...